On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote: > Yes, I know. That is how it is explained as an example in the Gentoo > Linux Handbook Chapter 8 [1] and it has worked for me so far. I am > sure that you could specify one file system type, but I am not too > sure if this really works at any case because a DVD could not follow > the ISO 9660 standard. As far as I know, some DVD's use the UDF > format.
It only works if mount can figure out what the actual fs is at mount time. It does this by examining all known variations on the idea of a superblock. As long as a sane fs is in use, mounts invariably figures it out correctly. btw, all dvds use UDF, ISO9660 is a cd fs -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
